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...Harvard computer workers will testify before a grand jury tomorrow about late-night phone calls Robert T. Morris, Jr., '87-'88 made to Harvard on the night he allegedly wrote and released a computer "virus" program that crippled computers nationwide...
...meantime, Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Friedell said yesterday that his subpoena to appear before the federal grand jury--handed down along with the other two last Monday--has been rescinded by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew T. Baxter, the prosecutor conducting the case. The professor said he was not being asked to testify because he had nothing to tell the jury...
Baxter would not comment on the grand juryactions and would not say who is beinginvestigated by his office for creating the virus...
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. A double whammy is in store for the new occupant of this post, created two years ago to coordinate and streamline the world's biggest purchasing program ($160 billion a year). A federal grand jury is expected soon to indict up to a dozen defense contractors, consultants and former Pentagon officials for fraud. Moreover, budgetary pressures will force the nation's No. 1 shopper to prune as much as $400 billion from purchases over the next five years. One indication of how difficult the job can be: Richard Godwin, the first man to hold...
...Upon publication," the publicity blurb wretchedly announces, "Edward Abbey will tour the following cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco . . . New York and Washington." Why wretchedly? Because Abbey loyalists don't like to imagine their prophet -- that grand old desert solitary, that North American champion of the ideological beer-can toss -- getting anywhere near Los Angeles, New York or those other evil megaburbs. Somebody might package his crankiness for distribution in health-food stores, or subject him to relentless understanding on public...